Reconstruction:Proto-Austronesian/aba

This Proto-Austronesian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Austronesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aba/ (Shibata, 2025)[1]

Noun

*aba[2]

  1. father (male parent)
    Synonym: *amax

Descendants

  • Atayal: aba
  • Proto-Malayo-Polynesian: *aba (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Shibata, Kye. 2025. A reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian coronal consonants: Phonetic evidence from Formosan languages. Dissertation submitted to the Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University, January 2025.
  2. ^ Rober Blust and Stephen Trussel (21 June 2020) The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary web edition – *aba₁‎[1]
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